Arguably speaking, one could claim that it did, for this year we have seen unprecedented cultural changes; in a
word, interrelations. Think about
it. The end of the world as we knew it. Our normal venues of interacting
with each other have gone the way of the dinosaur. Calling, meeting, talking, and forget
letters. We have changed our culture to
the point where we never been more connected and conversely, more disconnected than ever
before. We no longer have those long spurious talks on the phone, we chat or text. We no longer meet on that blind date, now we text first and chat, next, then meet. We don't write letters or send cards for that matter, we e-card or email. One root cause of this phenomena? The Mobile phone. Think not? Let’s give you a little wake up call…
Cell Phone Statistics
- There are more than 7 billion people on the planet. 5.1 billion Of them own a cell phone, but ironically only 4.2 billion own a toothbrush, interesting…
- There are more mobile phones than TV’s on the planet, in some countries, mobile subscriptions outnumber the people.
- The dominate use? Texting not calling. Why? The telephone call is a dying institution. The number of text messages sent monthly in the U.S. exploded from 14 billion in 2000 to 188 billion in 2010, according to a Pew Institute survey, and the trend shows no signs of abating. Not all of that growth has come out of the hide of old-fashioned phoning, but it is clearly taking a bite — particularly among the young.
- Four out of Five teens use a cell phone for texting… Teens carry a cell, with 57% viewing it as the key to their social life…
- Why not email rather than text? It takes an average of 90 minutes for the average person to respond to an email, but 90 seconds to respond to a text.
- Americans ages 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly 88 text messages per day, compared to 17 phone calls. The numbers change as we get older, with the overall frequency of all communication declining, but even in the 65 and over group, daily texting still edges calling 4.7 to 3.8.
- In the TIME mobility poll, 32% of all respondents said they'd rather communicate by text than phone, even with people they know very well. This is truer still in the workplace, where communication is between colleagues who are often not friends at all. "No more trying to find time to call and chit-chat," is how one poll respondent described the business appeal of texting over talking.
Another plausible player in cultural change is social
Networking. A fad? Unlikely…
- 25 percent of users on Facebook don't bother with any kind of privacy control. (source: AllTwitter)
- An average Facebook user has 130 friends. (source: AllTwitter)
- Monthly active users now total nearly 850 million. (source: Jeff Bullas)
- 21 percent of Facebook users are from Asia, which is only less than 4 percent of Asia's population. (source: Uberly)
- 488 million users regularly use Facebook mobile. (source: All Facebook)
- 23 percent of Facebook's users check their account 5 or more times daily. (source: Socialnomics)
- Facebook has seen a 41 percent growth in active users from Russia, South Korea, Japan, India and Brazil during 2012. (source: DreamGrow)
- 250 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. (source: Jeff Bullas)
- As of 2012, 210,000 years of music have been played on Facebook. (source: Gizmodo
- 43 percent of Facebook users are male, while 57 percent of Facebook users are female. (source: Uberly)
- A whopping 77 percent of B2C companies and 43 percent of B2B companies acquired customers from Facebook. (source: Business2Community)
- There are 175 million tweets sent from Twitter every day in 2012. (source: Infographics Labs)
- The average Twitter user has tweeted 307 times. (source: Diego Basch's Blog)
- Since the dawn of Twitter, there have been a total of 163 billion tweets. (source: Diego Basch's Blog)
- 32 percent of all Internet users are using Twitter. (source: Marketing Land)
- Twitter is projected to make a total of $540 million in advertising revenue by 2014. (source: Web Analytics World)
- 69 percent of follows on Twitter are suggested by friends. (source: Web Analytics World)
- In 2012, 1 million accounts are added to Twitter every day. (source: Infographics Labs)
- There are 575 likes and 81 comments by Instagram users every second. (source: Digital Buzz Blog)
- Users uploaded more than 800,000 photos of Hurricane Sandy using the hashtag #Sandy. (source: Information Week)
- In August 2012, Instagram hit 80 million users and counting. (source: Visual.ly)
- In August 2012, Instagram had an average of 7.3 million daily active users. (source: All Things D)
- The average Instagram user spent 257 minutes accessing the photo-sharing site via mobile device in August, while the average Twitter user over the same period spent 170 minutes viewing. (source: All Things D)
- More than 5 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day. (source: Business Insider)
- Nearly 4 billion photos have been shared on Instagram since its beginning. (source: The Realtime Report)
- 40 percent of brands have adopted Instagram for marketing. (source: Marketing Land)
Source(s)
- http://www.digitalforreallife.com/tag/mobile-phone-usage-statistics/
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-honigman/100-fascinating-social-me_b_2185281.html
- http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/tech/mobile/problem-text-messaging-oms/index.html
So “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
About Rick Ricker
An IT professional with over 20 years experience in Information Security, Telecommunications, wireless broadband, network and Infrastructure design, development, and support.
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